Individual and Contextual Factors Affecting Employees’ Inclination to Bootlegging

Dietfried Globocnik

Chapter 6 in Corporate Underground:Bootleg Innovation and Constructive Deviance, 2022, pp 167-186 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This chapter reviews past quantitative research on individual factors such as self-efficacy and risk propensity as well as contextual factors of formal and social control, which were found to affect employees’ individual bootlegging tendencies. The chapter also puts bootlegging in the context of related innovative behaviors to highlight their conceptual similarities and differences. The chapter also presents various avenues for future research covering further theoretical refinements, studying organizational-level outcomes of bootlegging, and empirical measurement issues that need to be resolved to facilitate progress in the quantitative stream of the bootlegging literature.

Keywords: Bootlegging; Creative Deviance; R&D Management; Innovation; Technology Management; Slack Innovation; Underground System; Under-the-Table Work; Informal Corporate Entrepreneurship; Autonomous Initiatives; Underground Innovation; Stealth Innovation; Unsponsored Innovation; Friday-Afternoon Work; Work Behind the Fume Cupboard; Free-Lance Work; Under-the-Counter Work; Pet Project; Discretionary Research; Intrapreneurship; Freewheeling; Illicit Research; Scrounging; Renegades' Work; Recherche Camouflagé; Recherche Caché; Recherche Parallèle; Recherche Libre; Recherche En Perruque; Recherche Sauvage or Recherche Sous-Marine; U-boot Forschung or Graue Projekte (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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